Police will begin gang awareness training

Aug. 16, 2005

Written by

Jane Prendergast
Enquirer staff writer

Cincinnati police officers chosen as part of an effort to track gang activity will be trained Wednesday on gang tattoos, colors and the department's new policy on handling gang investigations.

The policy was added to the department's procedure manual last week. It comes after months of talk on the floor of City Council about whether the department needed a centralized gang unit to fight violent crime that some council members believe is directly related to gangs.

Chief Tom Streicher maintained he didn't need a centralized unit. He has said the department's intelligence unit already ...